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    The New York-New Jersey Trail Conference is pleased to invite submissions of Qualification and Design Proposal for the adaptive reuse of the Darlington Schoolhouse to be used as the Trail Conference’s headquarters. 

    The Schoolhouse was built by Newport, Rhode Island architect Dudley Newton in 1891 and served as a single room schoolhouse and nondenominational meeting facility for residents Mahwah, in Bergen County, New Jersey until the 1940’s. 
    The Trail Conference intends to maintain the historical character of the building, preserving as many of the original elements as practical.  The Trail Conference intends that the building and its site will be restored, to the greatest extent possible as it is put to adaptive reuse. Our goal is to operate in an environmentally low impact manner, minimizing the building and site’s carbon impact, minimizing operating costs and using local materials and recycled materials where feasible. 

    You can download our RFP and a copy of the Darlington Schoolhouse Preservation Plan by Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects LLC, dated April 2007  for a description of the current condition of the property.

    All submissions are to be postmark by January 25, 2008.  For additional information, please contact Joshua Howard at 201-512-9348 or josh@nynjtc.org